Bacalso will shoulder the expenses of his hospitalization first, before any decision from the regional headquarters to extend possible assistance.

He said that as of present Bacalso is not administratively liable which means he will not face any sanctions as a consequence.

He said that it will be the Police Regional Office-7 that will make the final decision where or not Bacalso will be enrolled in retraining for gun handling or face a possible case for negligence.

“We will wait for the directive coming from the regional headquarters, but wala man sad siya mahimo ana, he has to accept it if unsa gani decision,” Homoc said.

Homoc said that all neophyte policemen will undergo reorientation of their new firearms.

To recall, last January 5, PRO-7 director Debold Sinas and his command group trooped to the Daanbantayan Police Station and relieved all 21 policemen assigned there for low performance.

The newly-installed policemen who replaced those who were relieved underwent basic training at the Regional Mobile Force Battalion. However, Homoc said the firearms they were oriented with were the .45 cal. pistol and the M-16 rifle. — BRP (FREEMAN)

China has rejected as “unwelcome” the call of the United Kingdom, France and Germany on the South China Sea claimants to respect the arbitration ruling of 2016 and the rules-based framework laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The Philippines and China effectively consigned to limbo on Thursday the UNCLOS-based arbitral ruling in 2016 on their maritime disputes, and moved to explore instead a wider Code of Conduct for resolving conflicts in the South China Sea.

It would be a betrayal of public trust should the Duterte administration accept China’s rejection of the landmark ruling that invalidated its sweeping claim over the South China Sea, parts of which is the West Philippine Sea, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario said Saturday.